It’s an unprecedented program aimed to modernize the plant in conditions of acting production without its suspension and reduction.

Between 2005 and 2006 the plant’s equipment was heavily overhauled. Two converters were modernized, some service equipment, including vessel shells and a refrigerating unit, was replaced.

In 2007 two converters were fitted with modern equipment which allowed improving steel quality and converters productivity. The commissioning of a new modernized blast furnace №1í with the annual production capacity of 1 million tons of cast iron led to considerable production upgrade.